What's the difference between marriage and wed?

Marriage


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony.
  • (v. t.) The marriage vow or contract.
  • (v. t.) A feast made on the occasion of a marriage.
  • (v. t.) Any intimate or close union.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An intact post-injury marriage was associated with improvement in education.
  • (2) Johnson and Campion are optimistic that marriage equality will win out, and soon.
  • (3) During the couple's 30-year marriage she had twice reported him to the police for grabbing her by the throat, before they divorced in 2005.
  • (4) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
  • (5) Yet, polls have Maryland voters approving same-sex marriage by 14 to 20 points.
  • (6) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
  • (7) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
  • (8) "Today a federal district court put up a roadblock on a path constructed by 21 federal court rulings over the last year – a path that inevitably leads to nationwide marriage equality," said Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign.
  • (9) It wasn't the best marriage – Jackie left me in 1962 when my first son, Paul, was 18 months old.
  • (10) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
  • (11) But she has struggled – quite awkwardly – to articulate her evolution on same-sex marriage, and has left environmental activists wondering what her exact energy policy is.
  • (12) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
  • (13) America's same-sex couples, and the politicians who have barred gay marriage in 30 states, are looking to the supreme court to hand down a definitive judgment on where the constitution stands on an issue its framers are unlikely to have imagined would ever be considered.
  • (14) I thought she had been put out of her misery by marriage but now she is a widow.
  • (15) If we were to have a plebiscite before the end of the year, and you were to reverse-engineer that, it would make interesting speculation about the timing of an election.” Abetz said in January he would need to see whether a plebiscite was “above board or whether the question is stacked” before deciding to heed any result in favour of marriage equality.
  • (16) A case of fragile-X syndrome (the Martin-Bell syndrome) in two male half-sibs from different marriages of their mother was described.
  • (17) The ACT’s opposition leader, Jeremy Hanson, said during Tuesday’s debate that the uncertainty surrounding the new same-sex marriage regime created significant problems for couples, and he suggested the territory could be liable to compensation if it pushed ahead of the tolerance of the commonwealth, rather than waiting for the legalities to be settled.
  • (18) Same-sex marriage: supreme court's swing votes hang in the balance – live Read more The court heard legal arguments for two and a half hours, in a landmark challenge to state bans on same-sex marriage that is expected to yield a decision in June.
  • (19) The fairytales – which have been distributed by leaflet to universities around Singapore – include versions of Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Snow White, each involving a reworked tale that relates to fertility, sex or marriage, and a resulting moral.
  • (20) It is likely that many of the girls end up working in brothels, but due to the stigma of being a sex worker they will usually report they were forced into marriage.

Wed


Definition:

  • (n.) A pledge; a pawn.
  • () of Wed
  • (n.) To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse.
  • (n.) To join in marriage; to give in wedlock.
  • (n.) Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly.
  • (n.) To take to one's self and support; to espouse.
  • (v. i.) To contact matrimony; to marry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
  • (2) In the Proposition 8 legal action, the supreme court could decide: • There is a constitutional right, under the equal protection clauses, for gay couples to wed, in which case the laws in 30 states prohibiting same-sex marriages are overturned.
  • (3) The aim of this paper is to elucidate the process of identity formation with particular emphasis on how the 'work ego' of each analyst is formed through various experiences which help the practitioner wed theoretical knowledge with clinical experience.
  • (4) Indeed, the best that many wedding service liturgies can do to insist that Jesus himself supported the institution of marriage is to say that he once turned up at one.
  • (5) She said: “We felt it would be quite hypocritical [to have a church wedding] when it’s not really what we believe in.
  • (6) A brief courtship was followed by a surprise wedding.
  • (7) One couple made the point graphically: she wore a red-stained wedding dress and her partner wore a sign that read, “I am the rapist”.
  • (8) On the programme, the bakes begin to become divorced from their function as food; they become symbols, like the cardboard cakes that were sometimes used at British weddings during the war when shortages ruled out the real thing.
  • (9) I don’t think I’ve ever spent that much on anything apart from my wedding dress,” Morgan said.
  • (10) One commentator has labelled the Pitt and Jolie wedding “normcore” by comparison.
  • (11) More than 120 couples joined the mass on Sunday morning to renew their wedding vows and celebrate more than 1,700 years of marriage between them.
  • (12) They are doing it not because they believe the 66-year-old can win in 2020, but for the same reason people retweet images of same-sex wedding ceremonies.
  • (13) By design these plants are adjacent to the AEC's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and such a location would seem ideal for an experiment on the wedding of nuclear and fossil sources of energy.
  • (14) It’s the frontrunner, has the critics on its side and is certainly the Film to Tick Without Watching, but the academy have a track record of shotgun weddings with watchable wild cards in this category – see the wins for The Lives of Others and The Secret in Their Eyes .
  • (15) The best thing that happened to me was when David Gedge [lead singer of the Wedding Present] followed me on Twitter".
  • (16) magazine-contracted, half-million pound wedding, Posh and Becks sat on a pair of golden thrones.
  • (17) When Emma Horan and Sam Whitney get married next summer they will commit themselves to each other in a special place, surrounded by their family and closest friends, but, as things stand, the wedding ceremony will not be recognised in law because their belief system is not based on religion.
  • (18) He conducted his first mass wedding in Seoul in the early 1960s.
  • (19) She was often at Moon's side for the mass weddings.
  • (20) A newly wed Mohamed Amine Benmbarek passed away while his wife received 3 shots and is in critical condition at the hospital.” Francois-Xavier Prevost, 26, France La Voix du Nord reports Prevost was killed at the Bataclan.

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